Improvement in preparing transfers for panel-sign painting



NrrED STATES PATENT 0FFIGE.

CHARLES H. GORDON, OF BROOKLYN, NEIV YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN PREPARING TRANSFERS FOR PANEL-SIGN PAINTING.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 147,835, datzd February 24, 1574; application filed September 13, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. GORDON, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Panel-Sign Painting, of which the following is a specification:

My invention consists in the application of printing, in varnish, oil, and dusting colors, to wood, being an improved method of making panel-signs, printing on boxes, fancy woodwork, Sac.

I first take paper and, to size it, lay a coat of starch over it. Then I calender it and give itanother coat, the same as the first, and again roll it. Thirdly, I take a solution of guni-arabio and coat the paper, and, when dry, I roll it again. Fourthly, I cover the whole with a coating of clear white Varnish, which not only facilitates the process of printing,.but preserves the colors when finished on the panel. Then the varnish is thoroughly dry, I dust it over with French chalk, and print the letters or figures from the first plate or. stone with strong clear varnish; then dust said letters or figures so printed with first color-say, gold or red. when dry, and all superfluous color is cleaned off, I lay the foundation for the next colorsay, blue -using the same process as for the first color, (printing in varnish,) and so in each color, till the whole of the picture or sign is printed on the transferringmediuln. hen

quite dry, I print over the whole a solid ground of white, or color which, when transferred to .printing, and varnish will be found transferred to the panel.

Any and every kind of printing can be treated in the above n1anner-1ithographic, letterpress, or the finest steel engravings.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Pat ent v 1. The process of preparing surface-starched transfer-paper to receive a printed impression from the plate or stone by first coating it with gu m-arabic, then with white varnish, and finally with the dust of French chalk, as set forth.

2. The process of transferring symbols or letters upon paper previously prepared, as described, from the plate or stone, by first printing said letters or representations on said paper in clear varnish, then dusting with the first color, and again varnishing before another is applied, preparatory to coverin g the whole with a solid background color, as specified.

CHARLES H. GORDOX. Witnesses 'l. B. Mosnnn, ALEX. F. ROBERTS. 

